Kirin Tanrei Green Label | Kirin Brewery Company, Limited

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Reviews by tone77:

I don't know why it's listed as retired. Is not hard to find in Tokyo. Poured from an 11.2 oz. can. Has a light golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is mild, a light touch of malts. taste is weak, bland, some very light malts, greatly lacking in flavor. Feels light in the mouth and overall is nothing worth seeking out.

A: Pours a crystal clear pale golden yellow in color with moderate to heavy amounts of active visible carbonation rising quickly from the bottom of the glass and faint bright yellow highlights. The beer has a three finger tall foamy bright white head that reduces to a large patch of mottled thin film covering the entire surface of the beer and a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Very light aroma overall with light aroma of grainy malts and rice adjuncts with just the slightest hint of grassy hops.

T: Upfront there is a light flavor of grainy malts with a light amount of rice husk adjuncts and just a touch of grainy sweetness. Very light hints of grassy hops and no perceptible bitterness.

M: Light bodied with moderate to heavy amounts of carbonation. Initially crisp and smooth through the finish with a thinness/wateriness.

O: Not offensive in any way but certainly not good/enjoyable and not a beer that I would seek out again. Grateful for my wife bringing this one back from Tokyo for me .

This beer looks very good, but as a light Japanese beer, it is indeed light and lacking in what one expects of one's beer. However, it's a nice golden, sunflower color, and it is extraordinarily easy to drink. Not bad for a light "happoshu". The green label also makes me happy.

350ml Can from Family Mart, Tokyo (¥138):
Terrible stuff from Kirin here & a beer that I will definitely not be returning to in future, it was quite a weak & poorly balanced beer with the taste a massive step down from an already poor aroma. There wasn't much of anything going on really, save for some basic corn & citrus flavours which made it one-dimensional & not very enjoyable; one of the worst I tried in Japan.

Can states proudly, 70% less sugars
Ingredients: Malt, hop, barley, sugars and yeast extract.
Less than 25% malt by volume (which means they pay little tax on this product).

I really have to reach to describe what this tastes like. At first I thought it was made entirely of rice husks, but to my dismay and shock this is made with no rice additives. This must be the only beer in Japan that is not. Considering this is made with less than 25% malt, and probably not much barley, this beer must be the taste of fermented "sugars". Now, I believe this beer is 70% sugars, which includes carbohydrates, so it must be fermented from simple sugars. (?).

This beer was so boring, I wouldn't even finish the can if served by a super-model.

it is truly remarkable how many different brands of happoshu you can find at every store in japan. there are so many, i've been here for three years - always trying every beer and beer-like beverage i see - but i'll never get them all because they always make new ones.

clear and extra pale, ginger ale sounds and a pathetic head. there's a tiny, thin white circle around the glass that, i guess, used to be the head ten seconds ago. two or three bubbles float up every once in a while. oh yeah, there it is. it has that unmistable near-beer smell. unappatizing.

this near-beer makes my teeth and gums hurt. it's gross, but not in a memorable, draft one or asahi blue way.
avoid.